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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:13:40 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>
Cc:        Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Are pipes broken in -STABLE?
Message-ID:  <3A6CBEA4.9A942CBC@urx.com>
References:  <20010122105801.A277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <20010122140220.G57772@stat.Duke.EDU> <20010122111204.B277561@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>

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Steve Sizemore wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Sean O'Connell wrote:
> > Steve Sizemore stated:
> > : For the last week or so, all of the kernels that I've built have been
> > : having trouble with pipes. Port extractions fail, makewhatis fails,
> > : all sorts of things generate error messages. The simplest example is
> > : tar - e.g.
> > :    # tar tzvf /usr/ports/distfiles/cfengine-1.6.1.tar.gz >/dev/null
> > :
> > :    gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> > :    tar: child returned status 1
> > :
> > : gunzip, followed by tar xf, works just fine, so I don't think it's a
> > : gzip or tar problem. Besides, other things fail which don't
> > : (apparently) use gzip or tar, but do use pipes. And, not all pipes,
> > : fail, but I haven't been able to determine what causes some to fail.
> > :
> > : This occurs on both intel and alpha.
> > :
> > : I have to believe that this is something local to my setup - I haven't
> > : seen anyone else discuss it on the list. Still I've tried almost
> > : everything I can think of, even dropping back to a GENERIC kernel, and
> > : still see the same behavior. Right now, I'm re-cvsupping the sources,
> > : and I'll try building GENERIC from virgin sources, but, in the
> > : meanwhile, does anyone have a clue what might be the problem?
> >
> > Steve-
> >
> > Is this over ssh connection? I think something weird is happening
> > with pipes and openssh 2.3.0p1 MFC.
> >
> > Not sure if it has been addressed or not.
> >
> > S
> > --
> > Sean O'Connell                                Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU
> > Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419
> > Duke University                               Fax:   (919) 684-8594
> 
> Yes, in fact, it is. I hadn't even considered ssh as a possibility,
> since almost everything I do is over an ssh connection. I just tried
> some things while logged into the console, and everything seems to
> work just fine.
> 
> Thanks for the clue. Now, who do we need to bother to get this
> addressed?

Well, the commits were by green@freebsd.org. It was a complete
replacement from what I can see. We first noticed the side effect on
the 14th.

Kent

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